Martin Luther King, Jr. ... For most people it would be Martin Luther King. ... Martin Luther King was a very intelligent man with a life full of obstacles as well as great accomplishments. ... A hardship of giving so much of himself, Martin Luther King was arrested many times and held in jail were he was not treated very well at all. ... The work of Marin Luther King, Jr. has had a very strong and very great affect on the way we live today. ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a prominent leader during the Civil Rights Movement and fought for equality for African-Americans. ... King's actions played a major role in bringing equality to the African-American community. ... Johnson signed it into law, this signified King's life's work had been a success. ... This success for the African-American community was a result of many years of hard work and determination by not only Martin Luther King, Jr., but all African-Americans. African-Americans struggled for equality for over one hundred years and still fight for that right ...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is citizen", said Supreme court justice Brandeis. Our democracy adapts to the needs of our citizens. The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. Our nation's climbing, ladies and gentlemen, ...

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Prior to the teachings and ideals of affirmative action, the theories of Martin Luther King existed as a means of creating equality between the masses. ... King acted as a threshold between discrimination between different classes of individuals. ... King. ...

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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quite correctly named the civil rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century the Third American Revolution. Though it is most often attributed to the 1960s the civil rights movement found it's start in the decade before that, the "peaceful 50s". The civil rig...

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Leaflets were produced to publicize the boycott, and 18 African American taxi companies agreed to charge the bus fare rate rather than their normal rate. 26 year old Martin Luther King, Jr. was chosen to head the MIA. On December 5, 1955, King addressed over 4 thousand people at the Holt St. ... After King gave his logical and eloquent speech Abernathy then spoke and gave the three demands of the boycott. ... King's and Abernathy's homes were both bombed, along with his Hutchinson Street Baptist Church. The boycott initiated the modern use of nonviolent protest and made King a Na...

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The Truth about Abortion Abortion, the termination of a pregnancy, is a highly controversial issue in today's society. The 1973 court case of Roe verses Wade ruled that women have the right to terminate a pregnancy by abortion within the first six months. What the Supreme Court considered in t...

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THURGOOD MARSHALL During the 20th century I have read many books, newspaper articles and seen news broadcasts on two of the most famous Afro American Pioneers: Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall. Martin Luther King fought all his life for equal rights for Afro Americans, but Thurgood Marshall help elevate the Afro American civil rights struggles through legal precedents and timely court decisions. ...

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In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government." Up until 1776 when the War en...

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Com Law In 1976 Carol Burnett called Barry Langberg, her lawyer, in tears. She was extremely upset about an article that had been published in the National Enquirer claiming that she was drunk at a Washington D.C. restaurant. Burnett was radically disturbed by the article because "her parents ...

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